Doesn\'t that seem to offer higher actual resolution than the video 5D3 puts out though?? Couldn\'t the camera take that down to 10bits instead of 8bits for compression?
I don\'t know how can we ever know. I will say that the internal codec of the 5D3 is an improvement over the 5D2 and all previous EOS DSLR\'s with video recording. No one seems to have noticed that the IPB codec in the 5D3 is really good.
High profile AVC is considerably better than baseline.
Yeah I do think the 5D3 video quality is better. 5D2 has so much more moire and aliasing, gets blockier in shadows, SNR seems to be much worse (ISO6400 on the 5D3 seems to be not much worse than ISO800 on the 5D2 from what I recall).
BTW did you try the new firmware? at first glance I thought it maybe crisped up the 5D3 video a bit, but I think it was probably just a combo of the subject matter on hand this time and coming after having just done a lot of old VHS transfers and I probably just tricked myself. But maybe it did??
Apr 26, 2013 at 04:12 PM
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and I probably just tricked myself. But maybe it did??